as in laggard
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The Nordics, Baltic states, Poland, Germany, France and of course the UK appear to buy into the seriousness of this threat, but there are notable defence laggards, namely Spain and Ireland.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025 -
Below are some of the stocks that pivoted from market laggards to leaders following the correction: One name on the list was cybersecurity stock CrowdStrike , which lost 26% between Feb. 19 and March 13.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2025
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Baseball’s opening day is for the believers, the diehards and dreamers.—
Andrew Carter,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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Execution separates successful people from dreamers.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In April, the company had to temporarily shut down service in Chicago when ne'er-do-wells managed to fraudulently rent and then steal 100 Mercedes-Benz vehicles off the street.—
Aarian Marshall,
WIRED,
19 Dec. 2019
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Oct 10, 2024 Gulf Coast Reporter Chris Gray is Chron's Gulf Coast Reporter, covering tourism and tourists, energy and the environment, overachievers and ne'er-do-wells: compelling stories from across the upper Texas coast, but with a deep focus on Galveston's rich history and culture.—
Chris Gray,
Chron,
10 Oct. 2024
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Neglecter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neglecter. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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